Christie White
Owner – What’s 4 Lunch
christie.white@whats-4-lunch.com
Christie began this journey as a K12 Equipment Rep over 8 years ago. She saw an incredible need for filling the kitchen training gap in K12. Over time, she diligently learned how programs operate, collaborated with K12 Food Manufacturers to learn specifics of the food, spent time in kitchens learning, observing and working alongside to understand “their world”.
She launched What’s 4 Lunch in 2021. She understands and operates most manufacturer’s equipment, new and old, knowing where it all fits in a program with the menu in mind.
She has trained in 50 plus programs in 12 states. She understands the pain points and works diligently to help any program she can. She is improving efficiency of kitchen operations, teaching proper processes of a commercial kitchen, seeing quality improvements that are leading to growth of a program and increased participation.
Christie is an advocate of School Nutrition anywhere the opportunity arises. She is passionate about empowering staff with seeing change as a positive to better their everyday job and to produce quality food so children everywhere will be fed. She is Chair of Indiana IAC, CHARGES THE HILL at LAC, and teaches education classes for State SNA Conferences. Changing the stigma of school lunch, helping amazing teams that do it, along with feeding more kids everywhere is what Christie strives to do each and every day.
